Optimized QKD BB84 protocol using quantum dense coding and CNOT gates: feasibility based on probabilistic optical devices

Amor Gueddana; Moez Attia; Rihab Chatta

doi:10.1117/12.2048809

1 May 2014 Optimized QKD BB84 protocol using quantum dense coding and CNOT gates: feasibility based on probabilistic optical devices

Amor Gueddana, Moez Attia, Rihab Chatta

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Proceedings Volume 9136, Nonlinear Optics and Its Applications VIII; and Quantum Optics III; 913627 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2048809
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

In this work, we simulate a fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution Protocol (QKDP) BB84 working at the telecoms wavelength 1550 nm with taking into consideration an optimized attack strategy. We consider in our work a quantum channel composed by probabilistic Single Photon Source (SPS), single mode optical Fiber and quantum detector with high efficiency. We show the advantages of using the Quantum Dots (QD) embedded in micro-cavity compared to the Heralded Single Photon Sources (HSPS). Second, we show that Eve is always getting some information depending on the mean photon number per pulse of the used SPS and therefore, we propose an optimized version of the QKDP BB84 based on Quantum Dense Coding (QDC) that could be implemented by quantum CNOT gates. We evaluate the success probability of implementing the optimized QKDP BB84 when using nowadays probabilistic quantum optical devices for circuit realization. We use for our modeling an abstract probabilistic model of a CNOT gate based on linear optical components and having a success probability of sqrt (4/27), we take into consideration the best SPSs realizations, namely the QD and the HSPS, generating a single photon per pulse with a success probability of 0.73 and 0.37, respectively. We show that the protocol is totally secure against attacks but could be correctly implemented only with a success probability of few percent.

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Amor Gueddana, Moez Attia, and Rihab Chatta "Optimized QKD BB84 protocol using quantum dense coding and CNOT gates: feasibility based on probabilistic optical devices", Proc. SPIE 9136, Nonlinear Optics and Its Applications VIII; and Quantum Optics III, 913627 (1 May 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2048809

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